Comments Sections Used To Be Free.

All over the Internet, sites or their users are censoring people’s voices. But Not here, right?

Sure you can make a comment, after becoming a registered user.  This seems to be the case everywhere I look.  Then once you get registered, you still might be blocked.  If your not blocked, your message may be removed by enough user ratings or flags.  Or you may find your message mysteriously hard to locate.  If you are not blocked or have your message removed, you may see your message get buried deeply beneath a series of messages that look connected.  We have all seen it, serial posters that copy and paste their message repeatedly. 

It seem harder and harder to have a discussion on the internet these days.  With all the rules and trolls and just plain rudeness, sometimes it feels pointless.  It is so bizarre how quick some are to resort to nothing but insults when facing an opposing view.  What happened to making a pointor trying to counter someon else’s point?  Is it just too hard?  Is it that people are so attached to their point of view that they can’t handle being confronted with the possibility of being wrong?  Is being wrong so bad?  Is having a change of heart seen as a sign of weakness?  What about being able to step into another’s shoes.  This used to be a good quality, to be able to objectively imagine the other side position.  To understand the contrary view was seen as a way to better state your position.

On top of the censorship, it also seems more common to just let Facebook handle the everything.  In order to have a registration system withou the hassles, a facebook comments plugin is just used.  This is the worst of all if you ask me.  When commenting, particularly on conraversial subject matter, being able to be easily and anonomously contribute to the discussion keeps it real and interesting.  When you give in and sign in with your facebook, you are openly connecting your net identity to what you say.  In addition, the box to share in the newsfeed os checked by default!  If you don’t notice, then whatever you say is transmitted to your friends along with a link to the article you are reading.  I generally do not even bother to submit a comment when my facebook is required.  If you look at a comments section run by facebook, they are generally bland and have sparse participation.  All it took was one time for me to abandon facebook run comments. 

Of all the places I would expect my comment to be censored, Before Its News was not even on that list.  But lately, it seems as though the comments do get censored.  Maybe it is just problems with the new system.  But I don’t seem to have any other problems.  And the comments issue seems arbitrary at times.  I held BIN in high regard for it’s apparent freedom.  Is that over, or was it all an illusion until you cross some invisible line?

Anyone else have issues with comments on this or other sites?  Please try to comment, if you can.